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Monday Musings

The Myth of No Time

Nerd alert…I will be quoting Star Trek.   My sister and I were chatting on the phone and as she lamented the lack of time she has to get things done around her house , I found myself looking around *my* house and the familiar, anxious feeling of too much to do and not enough time to do it crept…

Choices, Chances and Changes

This weekend I had my first table at a flea market and guess what? The world did not implode because I did not have multiple items for sale nor did people sneer at me because I was doing something new and different and wasn’t a professional crafter. *exhales* I have been avoiding doing any kind of selling of my yaRRnthings…

Getting Laughs at Helium Nightclub

This is a post in which I eat some crow. Effin Guy and I think we are hilarious. Not quite stand-up/ late night/ get your own HBO special funny, but we can get a few laughs and perhaps work a room. We share a love of comedians; there are quite a few I listen to and keep on rotation on…

Violated

 r’s note: Please pardon the rambling nature of this post. Even though “Stream of Consciousness Sunday” doesn’t formally exist anymore I’ve decided to have at it.  When The Bee and I moved three-ish years ago, I knew the area of Philly that we were moving to wasn’t the best but I never felt unsafe or worried about where we lived….

On Aging: Do Not Go Gentle

  There is an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation called Half a Life. In this episode the citizens of a planet the Federation is assisting, Kaelon II, performs a ritual called The Resolution. This ritual mandates that when citizens reach the age of 60 they should commit suicide as a means of ridding their culture of the need…